Kássia Borges And Ibã Huni Kuin are both members of the MAHKU collective and collaboratively they created this acrylic painting Mito do Surgimento do NixePae (Myth of the Origin of NixePae) in 2021. Ibã Huni Kuin is a txana (singing master) of the MAHKU (Huni Kuin Artists Movement). MAHKU is a collective of artist-researchers from the Huni Kuin people. The root of this collective started from the traditional training process that Ibã Huni Kuin completed with his father Tuin Huni Kuin, a notable researcher on the knowledge of the Huni Kuin people. Throughout his life, he safeguarded the musical knowledge and rituals that were in danger of disappearing in a society based around rubber tapping. Ibã combines this traditional training with the tools of writing and research, developing his artistic practice with his job as a teacher, he also records and publishes traditional songs. Kássia Valéria de Oliveira Borges, of the Karajá (Iny) people is a visual artist, curator, and professor at the fine arts program of the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). Since the 1980s, she had been involved in Brazil’s indigenous people's fights for rights and recognition.

Dan Zhu works across drawing, painting and mural, often combining natural objects such as petals or fruit with human figures in her compositions. Aiming to capture the often-puzzling dynamic between nature and human consciousness, Zhu plays with scale, repetition and color to create spectral, cubist like visions. In The Broken Fruit (2022) the artist applies a mixture of acrylic and watercolour on paper, marking and tracing potential movements of pieces of fruit. Zhu cites the work of philosopher Henri Bergson as leaving a deep imprint on her and her ways of seeing. His ideas surrounding immediate experience and intuition are reflected in the immense energy of her markings and her reluctance to let any form settle in one place. Esoteric artist Hilma af Klint is another key influence for Zhu, sharing her interest in botanical and cosmological energy. Magnetic to encounter, Zhu’s paintings find the phantasmal in everyday materials, awakening the beauty in habitual environments.

Kássia Borges (Rare Karaka Huni Huin) And Ibã Huni Kuin (Mahku Collective)